The foreign ministers of Australia, India, Japan and the United States announced new initiatives Tuesday on maritime security, port infrastructure and energy, as the group known as the Quad seeks to ...

North Korea fired several ‌missiles including at least one short-range ballistic missile toward waters off the country's west coast ‌on Tuesday, South Korea's military ⁠said. The missiles were ...

The Japanese government will compile a supplementary budget for fiscal 2026 totaling more than 3 trillion yen ($19 billion) to brace for higher energy prices amid prolonged tensions in the Middle East ...

A Skymark Airlines passenger jet made an emergency landing at Tokyo's Haneda airport Monday after detecting a tire problem, with one of its tires later found ruptured, the transport ministry said. No ...

The Japanese government is leaning toward the idea of cutting the current 8 percent consumption tax on food to 1 percent, rather than zero as pledged earlier, for faster introduction to tackle the ...

Two 19-year-old men have been arrested for allegedly robbing four men of a backpack containing gold bars and injuring them on the street in Tokyo last month, police said Monday. According to the ...

The bodies of two men and one women were found in a house in Ogaki City, Gifu Prefecture, on Sunday. According to police, a female relative of the occupants called 110 at around 4 p.m. and said that ...

Senior officials in the Food and Drug Administration’s tobacco center were blindsided by a recent decision that opens the door to allowing more unauthorized electronic cigarettes and nicotine pouches ...

Izakaya are a unique part of Japanese food culture. Their closest analogy would be pubs, since izakaya serve a wide variety of alcoholic drinks and food meant to be paired with such beverages. Their ...

Nissan Motor Co has withdrawn a plan to manufacture powertrains for electric vehicles in Britain, a source familiar with the matter said Sunday, as the struggling Japanese automaker reviews its ...

Japan's former world champion figure skater Shoma Uno said Friday he was coming out of retirement and targeting an Olympic spot in ice dance with partner Marin Honda. The 28-year-old Uno, who won ...